I'll take Pamela, Elevator, and Into The Woods over the talk show multi-parter from last season.
And I've ceased caring how much I laugh during the show. Its refusal to stay categorized as a comedy (regardless of what its commonly accepted label is) is really refreshing. If a show is surprising me, moving me, showing me a new perspective on something, it doesn't need to be frequently funny.
Not sure where else they could have gone with Vanessa. If anything, they could have builded her up over a couple episodes before that speech. But afterwards? Where do you go? She's just a nice person with a good sense of humor. Pamela as written (and performed) comes off a lot more interesting and complicated, and that was clear after just her first appearance.
The final 2 Pamela episodes occasionally came close to cliche rom-com territory, but her dark humor and own insecurities always pulled it back from the brink. And it's a bit of a Graduate ending. Louie gets the girl, but not really on his own terms, and concludes with a now what?/wait-and-see note.
Personally I think this would be a great place to end the whole series. But then again, since he's established that he can break continuity and do whatever tickles his fancy, there are certainly other places he can go with it. It just seemed like this season got pretty autobiographical/personal (however veiled) near the end and to go all absurdist and random again would be an odd gear-shift.